Dict: easton - Scarlet

easton:

Scarlet @ This dye was obtained by the Egyptians from the shell-fish Carthamus tinctorius; and by the Hebrews from the Coccus ilicis, an insect which infests oak trees, called kermes by the Arabians. This colour was early known kjv@Genesis:38:28). It was one of the colours of the ephod kjv@Exodus:28:6), the girdle

(8), and the breastplate

(15) of the high priest. It is also mentioned in various other connections kjv@Joshua:2:18; kjv@2Samuel:1:24; kjv@Lamentations:4:5; kjv@Nahum:2:3). A scarlet robe was in mockery placed on our Lord kjv@Matthew:27:28; kjv@Luke:23:11). "Sins as scarlet" kjv@Isaiah:1:18), i.e., as scarlet robes "glaring and habitual." Scarlet and crimson were the firmest of dyes, and thus not easily washed out.